Final­ly Welling­ton gets its own MySpace Secret Show, and what a show it is — NZ’s own world-class, world-famous, world­ly-wise elec­tro rap­pers, mas­ters of the mel­low-dra­ma and hip hopera Coco Sol­id play for free at an as-yet-undis­closed Welling­ton venue (that’s the secret, duh) next Wednes­day (18th). They also have a psy­che­del­ic kalei­do­scope of a new video on their MySpace page for their new sin­gle ‘Elec­trik Love’; it’s made by Aleks Sakows­ki who also made the over­whelm­ing­ly bril­liant ‘Crime­fight­ers’ vid — which I feel com­pelled to include here as it’s my absolute fave and it wins peo­ple over like noth­ing else:

More Coco love, and details on how to get into the gig, after the jump:

Coco Sol­id are some­thing of an extend­ed fam­i­ly, reunit­ing for the first time since Erik Ulti­mate moved to Welling­ton, leav­ing Coco & DJ Han Baby in Auck­land, and pro­duc­er ALC5 in Wan­ganui (inci­den­tal­ly, Al runs a venue out of his Wan­ganui flat that’s seen local and inter­na­tion­al acts jam into the lounge room with about 15 audi­ence mem­bers for some amaz­ing live shows).

There’s so much that could be said about the bril­liance of Coco and Erik’s lyrics, style, and the mas­tery of their audio-visu­al vision, but real­ly you just need to hear them (or bet­ter yet, see them) once and you’re hooked. There’s noth­ing quite like Coco croon­ing “you walk with a limp, like a crip­ple not a pimp — yeah, you’re jeal­ous” and oth­er such on-the-mon­ey killer obser­va­tions, to make you go ‘O SNAP’ and sing it to your­self all day. The girl is like the local Lar­ry David when it comes to socio-polit­i­cal awk­ward­ness dis­tilled into lyri­cal genius — for fur­ther proof, vis­it Auck­land’s blog site The Wire, where Coco has just start­ed to write her own blog.

Vis­it their Myspace page to hear tracks from the new dou­ble album, The Rad­i­cal Bad Attack, and befriend Secret Shows on MySpace to find out the secret venue and get into the free gig.